Famous Quotes & Sayings

LaVell Edwards

How is your health? I feel pretty good, and I'm very anxious to get the season going. I think we have a chance to have a good football team. I don't have any health problems. I don't know how any of the stuff gets started. . . . My health is very good.

LaVell Edwards

I'd rather lose and live in Provo than win and live in Laramie

LaVell Edwards

Edwards commented as he signed an extension to his contract. We have good young players in the program and strong schedules in the coming years. The future looks bright for BYU football. I also want to get a number of projects off the ground before I retire.

LaVell Edwards

Current condition of the BYU football program? I think it's in good shape. We've got some good young players. We've had two or three pretty good recruiting years. We lost some players, obviously, that hurt us, but you always have turnover in college through attrition (graduation, transfers). That's the nature of the game.

LaVell Edwards

Coming out of BYU's football spring, 1999, practice: We might have a chance to be pretty good.

LaVell Edwards

The main reason for doing it now had more to do with the players. This is a great group. This particular group has really worked hard to prepare themselves. And we have a chance to have a good football team.

LaVell Edwards

Commenting on playoffs to determine a national champion: I'm not in favor of 15 games either. I think that's way too much football. The thing that I feel good about is that these guys hung together through 15 games and played hard every week. That's a marvelous tribute to the kids. We just hung in there today and kept playing. It's just been a special feeling all year long.

LaVell Edwards

When we have adversity we oftentimes tend to look around and think that we're the Lone Ranger. We tend to believe that we're the only one who has problems. And we always look around and see others who are more talented, taller, smarter, handsomer, or faster. I can assure you, everyone has problems-even football coaches. The ability we have to handle this adversity will determine the degree of success that we will have in life.

John Turturro

Al Michaels is a good announcer. I think Keith Jackson is a terrific announcer. I always loved him on Monday Night Football. I never understood why they got rid of him

John Travolta

I played football in the ninth and 10th grade. I looked a lot like Joe Namath, so I think my looks got me there more than my abilities.

John Updike

The breezes taste Of apple peel. The air is full Of smells to feel- Ripe fruit, old footballs, Burning brush, New books, erasers, Chalk, and such. The bee, his hive, Well-honeyed hum, And Mother cuts Chrysanthemums. Like plates washed clean With suds, the days Are polished with A morning haze.

John Riggins

Professional football is a job and it's in the entertainment business.

John Riggins

Today, professional football is about profit and making money. But it's not about how much money you spend, it's about how wisely you spend it.

John Riggins

Football was never my life. The guys [and] the relationships were my life. I have an ability to relate to damn near everybody.

Larry Fitzgerald

I think the locker room is a huge part of the football team and often is a part thats overlooked. The chemistry in your locker room has a lot to do with how youre going to go out there and perform.

Larry Fitzgerald

If you play football, theres going to be a 100 percent injury rate. Something is going to be bothering you. So I just try to focus on the things that I can do to help my team.

Lamar Hunt

I'm a friend in the context that we helped fight a battle together for survival of the American Football League. But I don't consider myself close to Al in recent years. You just don't continually sue your business partners like he has.

Lamar Alexander

The idea of windmills conjures up pleasant images - of Holland and tulips, of rural America with windmill blades slowly turning, pumping water at the farm well ... But the windmills we are talking about today are not your grandmother's windmills. Each one is typically 100 yards tall, two stories taller than the Stature of Liberty, taller than a football field is long.

Kyle Whittingham

A lot of people are doubting us right now, ... But the reality is that we've lost two conference games on the last play of the game. . . . We have a lot of freshmen and sophomores running around out there, and they're good players. You look at us on paper, and I think we have the chance to develop into a very good football team this year and into next.

The guys respect him for that. He gets it done in the classroom. He gets it down on the football field.

Herman Edwards

The guy is a heck of a football player,

You've got to have passion to play football. We had it on the goal line. But we didn't play like that all the time on the field.

Jacob Zuma

We South Africans are also crazy about football, so the World Cup can be nothing but successful.

Jacob Latimore

My favorite football team is the Bears because my favorite player is on there, Devin Hester. I love the whole team, though. But that's just my favorite player.

Henry Rollins

Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them.

Henry Rollins

Football is at least as 'gay' as rugby, Greco-Roman wrestling and the film '300.'

Henry Bromell

I went to school with a guy named Truxton. He and I played football together, and he knocked me out once because he's bigger and strong than I am.

Manny Montana

If I ever get the chance to do a football movie, that would be a dream come true.

You've got a great football team that's now a mad football team,

All this may seem trivial, but football is what we do, and that's what our jobs are.

Albert Camus

All that I know of Morality and obligations I owe to football

Herman Edwards

All of a sudden, our punter and kicker now are going to be in a real game, a big-time football game, ... How are they going to react to that?

The game of football is a physical game, so if you go a game without having penalties, something's wrong, you know what I mean. I'm not going to back down. I'm going to keep doing what I do.